1And now I command you, my children, hearken 'to Yahudah (Judah) your father,' and keep my sayings to perform all the ordinances of Yahuah (Lord), and to obey the commands of Elohim (God).
2And walk not after your lusts, nor in the imaginations of your thoughts in haughtiness of heart; and glory not in the deeds and strength of your youth, for this also is evil in the eyes of Yahuah (Lord).
3Since I also gloried that in wars no comely woman's face ever enticed me, and reproved Reuben my brother concerning Bilhah, the wife of my father, the spirits of jealousy and of fornication arrayed themselves against me, until I lay with Bathshua the Canaanite, and Tamar, who was espoused to my sons.
4For I said to my father-in-law: I will take counsel with my father, and so will I take thy daughter. And he was unwilling, but he showed me a boundless store of gold in his daughter's behalf; for he was a king.
5And he adorned her with gold and pearls, and caused her to pour out wine for us at the feast 'with the beauty of women'.